The Victor 9000 (English name: ACT Sirius S1, distributed in the UK by British company Applied Computer Techniques) was designed by Peddle—who had also designed the first Commodore PET—and presented for the first time at the Systems show in Munich, Germany in late 1981. Chuck Peddle used two of his Commodore contacts to set up two subsidiaries in continental Europe. David Deane (France) and Juergen Tepper (Germany) were both ex-Mannesmann Tally whom Chuck had met while negotiating an OEM deal for printers.

The Victor 9000/Sirius S1 ran CP/M-86 and MS-DOS but was not a PC clone. It offered a higher resolution screen as well as 600Ko/1.2Mo floppy drives. The Victor 9000 met with significant success in Europe, as IBM delayed the European launch of its PC for 18 months and that was ample time to establish the Sirius S1 as a bestseller and to build up a commanding lead for a short time. ACT outsold the Sirius/Victor subsidiaries and also led the way in proving that application software was the key to sales. Most sales across Europe went through small system houses rather than computer shops.

The Sirius 1  was released in 1982 and cost US $4,995 (128K RAM)
The CPU was an Intel 8088 @ 5 MHz
The display was 800 x 400 graphics and 80 x 25 text

Our model the 510 has single double-side 1.2M bytes per drive 5¼: inch floppy.

Sirius Model 510
Serial No: M0078547

Keyboard - Model 764
Serial No: K0102876

Monitor - Model 602
Serial No: C00076637

 

Kindly donated by Tony Roberts together with software and manuals

Sirius Model 510 Manuals:

Item	Manufacturer	Date
Sirius 1 Users giude to the MS-DOS		1982

Sirius Model 510 Articles:

Item	Manufacturer	Date
Memories - Memories at Apricot		Unknown

Magazines RELATED to Sirius Model 510 in our Library

Item	Manufacturer	Date
Personal Computer World - February 1982		1 Feb 1982
Personal Computer World - August 1982		Aug 1982
Personal Computer World - November 1982		Nov 1982
Personal Computer World - June 1983		Jun 1983
Personal Computer World - September 1983		Sep 1983
Practical Computing - September 1983		Sep 1983
Practical Computing - October 1983		Oct 1983
Personal Computer World - February 1984		Feb 1984
Practical Computing - February 1984		Feb 1984
Special Supplement Practical Computing - April 1984		Apr 1984
16 Bit Computing - April 1984	16 Bit Computing	Apr 1984
16 Bit Computing - May 1984	16 Bit Computing	May 1984

Catalogues RELATED to Sirius Model 510 in our Library

Item	Manufacturer	Date
ACT Sirius 1 Hardware and Software Catalogue		1985

Other Systems Related To Sirius Model 510:

Item	Manufacturer	Date
ACT Sirius 1	Sirius	1981
Sirius Model 457	Sirius	1982
Victor 9000	Sirius Systems Technology/Victor Technologies	1982
Sirius Model 506	Sirius	1982
Sirius 457	Sirius	1982